Generosity of Spirit

it.  Our first response is to shrink it–constraining the generosity of optimism, excitement, positivity. 

            Sometimes we’re generous with ourselves in pointless or unhealthy ways  but are stingy with our soul.  Acquiring too many clothes or eating extra desserts is only surface generosity and doesn’t take the place of leaving a repressive job or marriage, taking risks to follow a vision, allocating precious time for creativity.  Then on our death bed we lament about the lack of generosity toward ourselves.  After all, we can’t take it with us—not just money—but time well spent, people well loved, self well expressed, a life lived in the spirit of Source’s exuberant bounty. 

              I expect to be given what is owed me, but nothing more, and am often startled to receive generosity from others.  I forget to think outside the box of our economic orientation which blinds me to the huge ocean of “extra” available to everyone.  What would it be like to represent our Divinity by living in the Zone of Extra?

              Generous people must be more advanced than the rest of us scrooges!  To be around them makes me feel bathed in bounty and reassured that there is nothing wrong with my needs/desires.  Fearlessly openhanded, they aren’t afraid to fully give because they know there’s a lot more where that came from.  They tap into and unsparingly share the true nature of spirit. They don’t hesitate to show how much love they feel and flood recognition for all gifts received from loved ones.  They’re affectionate—not stingy with touch.  They gush gobs of enthusiasm and encouragement to embolden others to take risks.  They don’t

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